Alias Jumped the Shark

I finally caught up with Alias. I've been reluctant to watch the last two episodes because I just don't care anymore. The story and the characters have devloved from intricate and complex and interesting to simple, derivative, and lame. It was confirmed last week when, instead of coming up with a new villain, decided to have someone impersonate Sloane.

Part of the reason why this is so awful is how late it comes in the season. It's about half way through the season and they introduce this major story arc. It's one thing for them to have it at the beginning so it gives the audience a chance to adjust and make heads or tails of it. But bringing it back now just shows that the writers have nothing left. They couldn't come up with something better than a villain they already had? Not to mention that Sloane wasn't exactly the most threatening of villains. Yes, he was evil, but not in the crazy, I'm capable of doing anything sort of evil.

I could buy Natalie as Sydney's sister. I can buy that they both had similar upbringings and went through similar trials. But the writers are just mimicing too much of stuff that was in season 1 and 2, and which were done better in those previous seasons.

I give Alias another two weeks. If it doesn't get better, I'm going to abandon the series.